US1558084A - Cuff button - Google Patents

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A. R. GLIDDEN CUFF BUTTON Filed F's-$3.4, 1924 INVENTOR 140020. A. G/Adoex:

' ATTORNEY Patented Get. 29, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

CUFF BUTTON.

Application filed February 4, 1924. Serial No. 690,532.

To aZZ whom it may cancer 21 Be it known that I, ARTHUR H. (iLIDDEN. a citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of Vashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvement in Cuff Buttons. of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cuff-buttons and its object is the provision of a button of this character having an extensible shank which permits the button being elongated for increasing the opening in the cuff to enable the wearers hand to pass through the cuff opening when putting on or removing a shirt.

With this and other objects in view, as will appear in the following description, the invention consists in the novel construction of a cuff-button comprising a shank formed of two telescopically arranged elements and in the resilient means for yieldingly connecting the same together hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure 1 is a view partly in longitudinal section and partly in side elevation of a cuff-button, illustrating the preferred form of my invention and showing the normal position of the parts. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same in its normal contracted form applied to a shirt cuff which is shown in transverse section. Fig. 3 is a view simi lar to Fig 9 showing the cuff-button elongated.

In said drawing, the reference numeral represents the head of a cuff-button member having rigid therewith a tubular stem or post element 6 into which extends the stem 7 of a second member having a head 8. The head 8 is rigid with its stem 7 which. within the post 6, is provided with an end flange element 9 which serves as a bearing for an end of a helical spring 10 whose other end bears against an annular shoulder 11 provided by the inturned outer extremity of the tubular post 6.

The spring, moreover, tends to retain the end element 9 of the stem 7 against the head 5.

As illustrated in Fig. l, the head 5 consists, preferably, of a concave-convex outer part 12 and an ann'ular inner part 13 which is secured about its periphery to said outer part 12 by crimping the latter as at 14 thereover.

The post 6 extends, as shown, through the aperture of the part 13 to bear against the head part 12 which serves to close the end of the post 6 adjacent thereto. The post 6 is provided with a peripheral flange 15 which is engaged between the inner and outer head-parts 12 and 13.

In use, the cuff-button shank constituted of the post 6 and the stem 7 of the respec tive heads extends through the button holes 16 of a shirt cuff, as 17, to couple the free portions 18 of the cuff with each other. Normally the spring 10 serves to retain the cuff-button in its relatively contracted condition as limited by the stem end 9 engaging against the head, but when the cuff is expanded by drawing the same upon a relatively large portion of the arm as the elbow or hand, for example, the spring yields to enable the cuff-button to lengthen.

The extensible character of the cuff-button enables a shirt to be put on or off, or the cuffs pulled up over the elbows. without disconnecting the buttons from the cuffs.

What I claim, is,-

A cufhbutton comprising two rigid members, each having a head element. one of said members being provided with a hollow post element having a flange at its outer end, the other of said members being provided with a stem extending axially into said postelement and having a flange within the latter. and an expansion spring provided within said post and between said flanges, said spring acting to yieldingly retain said stem of the associated member in contact with the head element of the other member.

Signed at Seattle Washington, this th day of January 1924.

ARTHUR R. GLIDDEN.

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